Thet Sambath 2011 Knight International Journalism Award

Saturday Profile by Seth Mydans, 7 August 2010

For seven long years, Thet Sambath lived in a world of secrets as he courted and won the trust of the former Khmer Rouge leader he holds responsible for the deaths of his parents.Read the full article...

Column One: Confronting Sadism by Joe, 15 December 2010

The Khmer Rouge, Close-Up by Brendan Brady, 6 August 2010

After three years of paying social visits, Cambodian journalist Thet Sambath finally gets what he wants from his secretive companion: a sign that the old man will discuss his past as second-in-command of the Khmer Rouge.Read the full article...

As an award-winning documentary about the Khmer Rouge makes its way across the United States, most Cambodians have been denied the chance to hear revelations made in a series of rare interviews with the genocidal regime's former chief ideologue.Read the full article...

Khmer Rouge film spurs Cambodians worldwide to revisit buried history by Stephen Kurczy, 19 November 2010

The Cambodian pond once bubbled as the bodies buried under the muck slowly decomposed, recalls an elderly Cambodian woman in the new documentary “Enemies of the People."Read the full article...

Perpetrator’s Pespective by Thet Sambath, 12 December 2010

At the age of eight I was orphaned. In Cambodia at that time there were many thousands of children like me, for this was the age of the Khmer Rouge regime and its Killing Fields.Read the full article...

The Khmer Rouge took my family but justice should not be vindictive by Thet Sambath, 27 July 2010

My country has been waiting more than 30 years for an international court to deliver judgment on the Khmer RougeRead the full article...

The Truth About the Khmer Rouge is too big for one court case by Thet Sambath, 27 June 2011

It was nearly dark when I got to his small wooden house on the Thai-Cambodian border. He greeted me with a weary smile. We both knew it would be the last time we would sit and eat a meal together.Read the full article...